VOA News Ayesha Tanzeem June 29, 2016 ISLAMABAD—Afghanistan’s national security adviser has accused Pakistan, without directly naming the country, of providing financial and logistical support to Islamic State (IS) fighters in Afghanistan. Hanif Atmar told journalists Wednesday in Jalalabad, the capital of eastern Nangarhar province, that his country’s security forces this week arrested three IS
Press TV June 25, 2016 Terrorists affiliated with the Daesh Takfiri group have kidnapped at least 30 people, including women, during an attack in Afghanistan’s troubled eastern province of Nangarhar. Afghanistan’s Khaama news service on Saturday quoted Attaullah Khogyani, the spokesman for Nangarhar, as saying that the terrorists launched coordinated attacks against local police checkpoints
Press TV June 13, 2016 More than a dozen members of the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group have been killed in operations by Afghan security forces against the extremists in the country’s eastern province of Nangarhar. In a statement released on Sunday, the Afghan Ministry of Defense announced that the operations were carried out in the
Press TV June 10, 2016 At least four civilians have lost their lives and more than three dozen others sustained injuries when a bomb explosion ripped through a mosque in Afghanistan’s troubled eastern province of Nangarhar, which borders Pakistan. Attaullah Khogyani, the spokesman for the provincial governor, said the terrorist attack took place as a large
VOA News Noor Zahid May 31, 2016 The government of Afghanistan says it has adopted a new strategy to counter Islamic State, but it has not given any specific details. The plan, approved Monday at the National Security Council weekly meeting chaired by President Ashraf Ghani, calls IS an “enemy of Afghanistan’s national security.” “The
VOA News Zabihullah Ghazi, Noor Zahid May 20, 2016 An Islamic State (IS) commander in Afghanistan killed 11 of his fellow fighters in the Achin district of eastern Nangarhar province, Afghan provincial authorities said. The Nangarhar governor’s spokesperson, Attaullah Khogyani, told reporters on Friday about the unusual killings carried out by IS commander, Zameen Jan —
VOA News Zia-U-Rahman Hasrat, Noor Zahid May 10, 2016 NANGARHAR, AFGHANISTAN/WASHINGTON—After being knocked off the air by government airstrikes, so-called Islamic State group (IS) has restarted radio broadcasts into a restive area of Afghanistan. The radio channel, which broadcasts from a remote mobile transmitter in the mountains along the Pakistan border, has returned with new programming
Press TV May 10, 2016 Fifteen Afghan police were killed in an attack by the Taliban militants on two checkpoints close to Afghanistan’s southern city of Lashkar Gah in Helmand Province Tuesday. A senior security official of Helmand released the number of fatalities, saying, “The situation is very critical near” the city. Speaking on condition
VOA News Zabihullah Ghazi May 5, 2016 NANGARHAR, AFGHANISTAN—With war still raging in Afghanistan, the country also faces the problem of child labor as families put their school-age children to work to help make ends meet. VOA encountered two families whose children toiled away at a brick-making factory. One family had been working to pay
VOA News Zia-U-Rahman Hasrat, Noor Zahid May 2, 2016 WASHINGTON AND NANGARHAR, AFGHANISTAN—The United States and the West have long targeted Afghan opium and heroin production. Now the industry has a new enemy: Islamic State (IS). Afghan opium farmers in areas under IS control told VOA’s Afghan service that IS has started eradicating poppy crops in